On 8 September the 2023-2024 Academic Year officially began at the Institute in the BA, MA and non-degree training courses with students from 18 different countries.

We are delighted to announce that the Evaluation Report of our Erasmus+ project PRESTO has awarded a world-class score of 96/100 to the project!

Below is the letter of welcome and farewell by Dr Andrea Vigh, President of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.

Dr. Mihály Ittzés, regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, former deputy director of the Kodály Institute

Mihály Ittzés' rich oeuvre still stands as an example to all of us who worked with him at the Kodály Institute.

The highly recognised Move mi Music application is now available in 7 languages: Chinese (simplified), French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish versions have been launched to enrich the already existing original languages, English and Hungarian.

The International Kodály Musicianship Certificate is a new initiative that aims at raising awareness in the importance of general musicianship training for all professional musicians and music educators.

The aim of Katalin Kiss' book is to support conservatory students (aged 14-22) and their teachers with a collection of carefully selected materials from which to learn the necessary musical concepts and practical knowledge of music theory, form, and harmony.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Association for Music Education (APEM), Professor Cristína Brito da Cruz, Director of the Kodály Centre of Portugal compiled a significant study on the most outstanding music education movements in Portugal including an overview of the adaptation of the Kodály - concept as well.

We were happy to see more and more of our students coming back to Kecskemét and excited to meet new students who made their big decisions of moving to Hungary to study at the Institute in the 2022-23 academic year. 

The Institute's alumni community lost a lovely member on 21 August.
We were shocked to learn about the death of Jessica Hatton (Canada), student of the 2013-2014 academic year at the Institute. 

Our Erasmus+ Strategic partnership project PRESTO - Practices and Resources for Equipping Schools to Teach Music Online has completed the third study trip, this time to Edinburgh where our project partner, the National Youth Choir of Scotland held the NYCOS Kodály Summer School 2022.

Katalin Kiss, conductor, retired associate professor of the Institute, received the civilian branch of the Hungarian Silver Cross of Merit, a prestigious state award on the occasion of 20 August, the anniversary of the state’s foundation.

A review has been published in Canada in the latest volume of the International Education Studies Journal on the Creative Piano Pedagogy developed by two eminent Hungarian Kodály specialists under the name ZeneZen.

Our Erasmus+ Strategic partnership project PRESTO - Practices and Resources for Equipping Schools to Teach Music Online has completed a fantastic study trip to Helsinki, hometown of our Finnish project partner Caprice Oy.

The Bösendorfer instrument in the Kodály Museum has been fully reconstructed with the help of a grant from the National Cultural Fund.

The Director of the Kodály Institute László Nemes and Cristina Brito da Cruz, Professor of Music Education, Director of Centro Kodály de Portugal ran a 2-day Kodály-concept training in Praia, Cape Verde. 

On April 6 H.E.Mr. Park Chulmin, Ambassador of the Republic of South Korea to Hungary, visited the Institute.

The Kodály Museum, together with the Liszt Museum, became part of a 40-member European association of musicians’ and composers’ memorial museums, with the founding document of the agreement signed in France on 3 April.

AKA (Red), Chamber Choir of the Institute - together with the Singing Circle of Kecskemét conducted by Péter Erdei and the Aurin Girls' Choir conducted by László Durányik - performed successfully at the concert entitled “Da pacem, Domine” - Wish for Peace in the Lutheran Church on March 26 as part of the Kecskemét Spring Festival. 

We are delighted to inform our visitors that the publications of the Kodály Institute are now available through its brand new webshop. All of these latest publications, including basic Kodály-concept literature, fabulous choral scores, and significant earlier studies are listed there, grouped by genre, together with a detailed description of each. To get these valuable materials, just click the basket button, and enjoy reading or teaching with them.